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Rhipsalis

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Rhipsalis is a genus of epiphytic cacti. [1]

67 relations: Adrian Hardy Haworth, Africa, Algae, Alwin Berger, Ancient Greek, Argentines, Atlantic Forest, Binomial nomenclature, Brazil, Cactoideae, Cactus, Caribbean, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Caryophyllales, Cassytha, Central America, Chile, Epiphyte, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Eudicots, Flower, Flowering plant, Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber, Genus, Gynoecium, Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren, Joseph Gaertner, Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, Karl Moritz Schumann, Lauraceae, Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, Madagascar, Mistletoe, Morphology (biology), Nathaniel Lord Britton, New World, Nigel Paul Taylor, Patagonia, Perianth, Plant, Rhipsalideae, Rhipsalis baccifera, Rhipsalis cereoides, Rhipsalis crispata, Rhipsalis elliptica, Rhipsalis floccosa, Rhipsalis hoelleri, Rhipsalis mesembryanthemoides, Rhipsalis oblonga, Rhipsalis pacheco-leonis, ..., Rhipsalis paradoxa, Rhipsalis pilocarpa, Rhipsalis russellii, Rhipsalis sulcata, Rose, Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck, South America, Species, Sri Lanka, Stamen, Succulent plant, Thorns, spines, and prickles, Tristerix, Tropical rainforest, Werner Rauh, Wicker, Wilhelm Barthlott. Expand index (17 more) »

Adrian Hardy Haworth

Adrian Hardy Haworth (19 April 1767, Hull – 24 August 1833, Chelsea) was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Algae

Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.

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Alwin Berger

Alwin Berger (28 August 1871 – 20 April 1931) was a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants, particularly agaves and cacti.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Argentines

Argentines, also known as Argentinians (argentinos; feminine argentinas), are the citizens of the Argentine Republic, or their descendants abroad.

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Atlantic Forest

The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south, and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera.

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Binomial nomenclature

Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Cactoideae

The Cactoideae are the largest subfamily of the cactus family, Cactaceae.

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Cactus

A cactus (plural: cacti, cactuses, or cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae,Although the spellings of botanical families have been largely standardized, there is little agreement among botanists as to how these names are to be pronounced.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Carl Sigismund Kunth

Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist.

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Caryophyllales

Caryophyllales is an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, beets, and many carnivorous plants.

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Cassytha

Cassytha is a genus of some two dozen species of obligately parasitic vines in the family Lauraceae.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel

Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (30 May 1783, Esslingen am Neckar – 12 May 1856) was a German physician and an authority on grasses.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber

Frédéric Albert Constantin Weber (17 May 1830 in Wolfisheim – 27 July 1903 in Paris) was a French botanist, who specialized in Cactaceae.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren

Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren (1854–1918), known as Albert Löfgren or Alberto Löfgren, was head of the botany department of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden around 1905.

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Joseph Gaertner

Joseph Gaertner (12 March 1732 – 14 July 1791) was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788-1792).

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Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck

Joseph Franz Maria Anton Hubert Ignatz Fürst und Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (4 September 1773 at Castle Dyck near Neuss – 21 March 1861 in Nice) was a German amateur botanist and owner of Castle Dyck.

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Karl Moritz Schumann

Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 in Görlitz – 22 March 1904 in Berlin) was a German botanist.

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Lauraceae

Lauraceae are the laurel family, that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives.

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Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer

Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, also known as Louis Pfeiffer (4 July 1805 – 2 October 1877), was a German physician, botanist and conchologist.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the English common name for most obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Nathaniel Lord Britton

Nathaniel Lord Britton (January 15, 1859 – June 25, 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.

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New World

The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).

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Nigel Paul Taylor

Nigel Paul Taylor (born 1956) is a British botanist.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile.

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Perianth

The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals).

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Rhipsalideae

The Rhipsalideae are a small tribe of cacti, comprising four genera (and around 60 species).

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Rhipsalis baccifera

Rhipsalis baccifera, commonly known as the mistletoe cactus, is an epiphytic cactus which originates from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Florida.

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Rhipsalis cereoides

Rhipsalis cereoides is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rhipsalis crispata

Rhipsalis crispata is a species of terrestrial plant in the family Cactaceae.

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Rhipsalis elliptica

Rhipsalis elliptica is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae.

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Rhipsalis floccosa

Rhipsalis floccosa is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae.

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Rhipsalis hoelleri

Rhipsalis hoelleri is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rhipsalis mesembryanthemoides

Rhipsalis mesembryanthemoides is a cactus in the genus Rhipsalis belonging to the family Cactaceae.

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Rhipsalis oblonga

Rhipsalis oblonga is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rhipsalis pacheco-leonis

Rhipsalis pacheco-leonis is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rhipsalis paradoxa

Rhipsalis paradoxa is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rhipsalis pilocarpa

Rhipsalis pilocarpa is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rhipsalis russellii

Rhipsalis russellii is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rhipsalis sulcata

Rhipsalis sulcata is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family.

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Rose

A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears.

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Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck

Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck was a small County of the Holy Roman Empire.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Stamen

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Succulent plant

In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants that have some parts that are more than normally thickened and fleshy, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.

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Thorns, spines, and prickles

In plant morphology, thorns, spines, and prickles, and in general spinose structures (sometimes called spinose teeth or spinose apical processes), are hard, rigid extensions or modifications of leaves, roots, stems or buds with sharp, stiff ends, and generally serve the same function: physically deterring animals from eating the plant material.

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Tristerix

Tristerix is a genus of mistletoe in the family Loranthaceae, native to the Andes, ranging from Colombia and Ecuador to Chile and Argentina.

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Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest.

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Werner Rauh

Werner Rauh (16 May 1913 in Niemegk – 7 April 2000 in Heidelberg) was an internationally renowned German biologist, botanist and author.

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Wicker

Wicker is a technique for making products woven from any one of a variety of cane-like materials, a generic name for the materials used in such manufacture, and a term for the items so produced.

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Wilhelm Barthlott

Wilhelm Barthlott (born 1946 in Forst, Germany) is a German botanist and bionics/biomimetics expert.

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Erythrorhipsalis, Lymanbensonia, Mistletoe cactus.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhipsalis

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